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Bon Iver (Music)

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Influenced by: Nick Drake, Peter Gabriel, Indigo Girls, John Prine, Bruce SpringsteenInfluenced: dodie, Ellie Goulding, LordeBon Iver is an indie folk semi-group comprising of singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Justin Vernon (b. April 30, 1981) and whoever he has on hand at the moment. The name is a slightly Anglicized version of the phrase "bon hiver" (French for "good winter"), which Vernon heard from an episode of Northern Exposure.The story behind Bon Iver's inception is now considered legendary. After undergoing a band breakup, a relationship breakup, and a bout with several illnesses all within a short time, Vernon retreated to his father's cabin in Wisconsin, frustrated with his music and his life. Initially just planning to isolate and recuperate, he began recording demos for an album, planning to rerecord them later.When he sent the demos to friends and record labels, however, they told him almost unanimously that the songs should be left as they were, so he self-released the demos as the album For Emma, Forever Ago, signing with Jagjaguwar Records later that year after a few performances and some online exposure.On the heels of the album's success, Bon Iver has set out on a tenure of music that's widely known as the soundtrack for lonely, melancholic winters, although the acoustic folk sound this mood is associated with has given way to experimentation with more ambient, glitchy, and electronic sounds.Vernon also lent his folksy sound to the role of Orpheus in Hadestown. He and The National's Aaron Dessner make up the group Big Red Machine.Discography:Albums For Emma, Forever Ago - 2007 Bon Iver, Bon Iver - 2011 22, A Million - 2016 i,i - 2019EPs Blood Bank - 2009
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all lowercase letters: How the title of "re: stacks" is meant to be formatted.
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New Sound Album
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New Sound Album: The Self-Titled Album, due to Vernon assembling an actual band for it and being able to afford better equipment and an actual studio. And the Blood Bank EP was completely different from both the Self-Titled Album and For Emma (though it did foreshadow "Beth/Rest" and 22, A Million with "Woods"), so one could say that every Bon Iver release so far has been a New Sound Album. 22, A Million is almost entirely electronic, incorporating rougher, glitchy production and elements of alternative R&B and ambient.
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Title Track
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Title Track: A variant; For Emma, Forever Ago has "For Emma".
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Miniscule Rocking
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Miniscule Rocking: "Lisbon, OH" and "Team" are roughly a minute long.
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Boléro Effect
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Boléro Effect: "Woods", as mentioned above in Auto-Tune.
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Auto-Tune
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This trope is used again on 22, A Million. Thanks to the Prismizer (see Auto-Tune above), Vernon is able to self-back in real-time with full polyphonic harmonization.
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Cluster F-Bomb
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Cluster F-Bomb: The added outro to "Beth/Rest" for the Radio City Music Hall performance.
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Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
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Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: Enthusiastically and unashamedly on the idealistic side. This is partially what allowed the unabashed soft rock of "Beth/Rest" to work. After being asked whether he was worried "Beth/Rest", which uses Auto-Tune for artistic purposes, would be misinterpreted as being ironic:
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Bittersweet Ending
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Bittersweet Ending: Lost love is one of the biggest conceptual cornerstones of For Emma, Forever Ago. The album's ending with "re: stacks" seems to angle towards the bitter side, as while the narrator has begun moving on, he still admits to having deep emotional wounds that he's a long ways away from healing.
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BSoD Song
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BSoD Song: All of For Emma, Forever Ago has shades of this, but "re: stacks" is the most obvious.
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Sampling
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Sampling: 22, A Million uses this extensively, especially on "33 "GOD"", which uses samples of songs by Jim Ed Brown ("Morning"), Paolo Nutini ("Iron Sky"), Lonnie Holley ("All Rendered Truth") and Sharon Van Etten ("Dsharpg").
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Lucky Charms Title
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Lucky Charms Title: All the songs on 22, A Million, essentially. Examples include "666 ʇ" and "10 d E A T h b R E a s T ⊠ ⊠"
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Audience Participation Song
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Audience Participation Song: "Skinny Love" due to its being a fan favorite, alongside "The Wolves (Act I and II)" mainly for the "what might have been lost" section.
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Lonely Piano Piece
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Lonely Piano Piece: The acoustic version of "Beth/Rest."
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Non-Appearing Title: Many examples, among them "Perth," "Minnesota, WI," "Holocene," "Michicant," "Wash.," "Calgary," "Lisbon, OH," and "Beth/Rest." Partial examples include "The Wolves (Act I and II)," which features "the wolves" but not "(Acts I and II)," "re: stacks" which features the word "stacks" but not "re:," and "Hinnom, TX," which features "Hinnom" but not "TX."
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Epic Instrumental Opener
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Epic Instrumental Opener: "Perth" features one.
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Epic Rocking
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Epic Rocking: "re: stacks" is nearly seven minutes long. In the traditional sense of the word "epic", however, Vernon's entire output could count.
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Siamese Twin Songs
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Siamese Twin Songs: "Creature Fear" and "Team." "Perth" and "Minnesota, WI." "Calgary" and "Lisbon, OH.," or "Lisbon, OH." and "Beth/Rest," depending on whether you see "Lisbon, OH." as an outro for "Calgary" or an intro for "Beth/Rest."
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Hipster
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Hipster: The band has, unfortunately, been tagged with this label due to their support by Pitchfork Media (and the ensuing throngs of hipsters that discovered the music). The backstory about the hunting lodge didn't help.
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Retraux
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Retraux: "Beth/Rest." It's soft rock in the style of Bruce Hornsby, and it works.
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Sensory Abuse
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Sensory Abuse: The distorted drums in "10 d E A T h b R E a s T ⊠ ⊠" are this.
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Loudness War
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Loudness War: Thankfully completely averted. For Emma, Forever Ago has a dynamic range of about 11 (13 for the vinyl release) thanks to being released completely unmastered. That's inconcievable for a post-2000s album. The second album was mastered, but still sits at a respectable 10. Zigzagged on 22, A Million. Its dynamic range as a whole is an 8, but "10 d E A T h b R E a s T ⚄ ⚄" sits at a 4, with its brickwalled industrial drumming; "00000 Million", a tender ballad, sits at a lofty 14. Given the experimental/industrial nature of it, it's more than fitting.
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Rearrange the Song: "Woods" was reused as the vocals for the song "Still" by Volcano Choir, a supergroup consisting of Justin Vernon plus members of post-rock outfit Collections of Colonies of Bees.
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Indecipherable Lyrics
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There's one in "Creature Fear" too, but it's used at such an uplifting point in the album (and rather hard to make out) that a lot of people don't hear it: "so many foreign worlds/so relatively fucked/so ready for us/a creature fear."
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Precision F-Strike
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Precision F-Strike: "Holocene" and "Towers" both have one. The latter is quite easy to miss. There's one in "Creature Fear" too, but it's used at such an uplifting point in the album (and rather hard to make out) that a lot of people don't hear it: "so many foreign worlds/so relatively fucked/so ready for us/a creature fear."
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Perfectly Cromulent Word
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Perfectly Cromulent Word: 'Fide' and 'fane' from "Perth," 'waundry' from "666," 'astuary' from "8"...
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A cappella
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A Cappella: "715 - CR∑∑KS". "Woods", sort of. The vocals are heavily filtered and processed, but otherwise there's no accompanying music.
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Self-Titled Album
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Self-Titled Album: The second album, named Bon Iver, or Bon Iver, Bon Iver.
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Subdued Section
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Subdued Section: The first and last verses of "Calgary."
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Love Nostalgia Song
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Love Nostalgia Song: The bridge of "Calgary" seems to be this. It's one of the most heart-wrenching moments on the album. Much of For Emma, Forever Ago toys with this, reflecting on the different aspects of the narrator's relationship with 'Emma' (actually a composite of several of Vernon's previous girlfriends) and eventually concluding that he's better off without her ("Skinny love has no nourishment; it can't grow"). This doesn't stop him for having a drunken breakdown over it in "Re: Stacks." "Towers" might be another one.
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Album Title Drop
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Album Title Drop: In "For Emma:"
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Broken Record
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Broken Record: Vernon has a penchant for writing simplistic lyrics that expand in meaning with repeated utterances.
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Word Salad Lyrics
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Word Salad Lyrics: Vernon has a habit of building wordless melodies and then writing words that sound phonetically aesthetic with those melodies, which evokes a more subconscious feeling and also generates lots of lyrics as pretty as they are abstract.
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Grief Song
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Grief Song: All of For Emma, Forever Ago probably qualifies, but special mention goes to "re: stacks," which, of all the songs on the album, is the most up-front about it.
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Self-Backing Vocalist
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Self-Backing Vocalist: Almost all of the tracks on For Emma, Forever Ago, most notably "Lump Sum," where is voice is layered so much that the song sounds like it's being sung by a choir of Justins. Justified by the fact that he was completely alone in a cabin in the wilderness, and thus didn't have anyone else to sing backup. Averted on the Self-Titled Album; since, unlike during the recording of For Emma, he wasn't alone in the woods during recording, he could bring in other vocalists to sing backup. This trope is used again on 22, A Million. Thanks to the Prismizer (see Auto-Tune above), Vernon is able to self-back in real-time with full polyphonic harmonization.
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Single Stanza Song
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Single Stanza Song: "Woods".
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